Chapter Nine Into Darkness Iarion was falling. Darkness surrounded him. Abandoned and alone, cold tears trickled down his face as he awaited his doom. He had nothing left. All his energy had been given to the battle. He had managed to destroy Saviadro’s spirit form, but now he was doomed to lose his soul inside the Void as well... Something shook him by the scruff of his neck. Iarion uttered a startled yelp. His arms and legs dangled below him into the endless pit that surrounded him. He slowly turned his head to look up. Golhura was above him. The back of his tunic was clenched between her sharp teeth. He read worry in her slitted gaze. She seemed to be standing on absolutely nothing at all. “Golhura?” Iarion uttered the name with a groan of confusion as his past memories warred with

